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Cancel culture IRL

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d4m10n said:
Please see posts #325 & #328.
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This is a waste of time. Truly impressive effort to avoid saying anything substantial while just regurgitating the right wing's outrage of the day. It's nice to have a hobby, I guess.
 
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d4m10n said:
I'd say the online virality is the only part that is new here.

Mob justice and struggle sessions performative public humiliation are as old as humanity, I would imagine.

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Earlier when I mentioned the likes of pressure groups I thought you were saying cancel culture is different, but I'm thinking you are in fact saying it is the same behaviour we've always had?

What do you want to happen in regards to " cancel culture"? Do you want some components of that behaviour to made illegal? For private companies like Twitter and Facebook to not their platforms for people to protest? And so on?
 
Darat said:
1) How do you know people are not doing that?
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Do the people in the video look as if they have stopped to take a moment to carefully consider whether they are doing the right thing by surrounding and publicly shaming the woman in the pink blouse? Do they seem to have asked themselves whether it makes sense to instill fear-based compliance in those whom they see as transgressing the emergent moral norm? I'd say no to both.

Darat said:
2) If they aren't how are you going to get people to behave as you wish them to rather than how they wish to behave?
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I doubt that there is any reasoning with folks who've worked themselves into a lather of self-righteous rage.
 
d4m10n said:
Do the people in the video look as if they have stopped to take a moment to carefully consider whether they are doing the right thing by surrounding and publicly shaming the woman in the pink blouse? Do they seem to have asked themselves whether it makes sense to instill fear-based compliance in those whom they see as transgressing the emergent moral norm? I'd say no to both. ...snip...
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Hang on the last link then is an example "cancel culture"? I'm now totally confused now about what you mean by cancel culture?? :confused:
 
Darat said:
Hang on the last link then is an example "cancel culture"?
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It is an example of at least two elements of cancel culture, that is, self-righteous indignation over a perceived transgression and an attempt by the affronted mob to collectively modify the behaviour of the transgressor.
 
d4m10n said:
It is an example of at least two elements of cancel culture, that is, self-righteous indignation over a perceived transgression and an attempt by the affronted mob to collectively modify the behaviour of the transgressor.
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Now tell me about the Montgomery bus boycott.
 
d4m10n said:
Seems weird that RedStapler won't go so far as to say whether that fake quote was intended as a characterization of what actually happened or not.
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Seems odd that you are really dead-set on refusing to characterize what you think is happening in the video, even though you're the one that posted it.
 
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